What is the difference between npm packages vs. node_modules?

Or is an npm package equal to a node_module?

CodePudding user response：

answered by @jonrsharpe:

node_modules/ is a directory in which NPM packages are stored. There are also Node modules, as distinct from node_modules/, which are the modules that ship with Node and are listed in e.g.

CodePudding user response：

yes npm pakage use the code present that prasent in nodemodules